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"With all due respect, tobyink; How do you know? What makes you think so?"

Because this is true for any mainstream programming language - there are always people abandoning the language for pastures new, and new people discovering the language; there are organizations rewriting a legacy application in a different language (in fact, choosing a different language to rewrite a legacy system is a good idea - it helps ensure crufty parts of the old system don't get kept around for convenience); people switching jobs and having to adjust to a new development environment.

use Moops; class Cow :rw { has name => (default => 'Ermintrude') }; say Cow->new->name
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Re^4: Migrating from Perl to other language? Why would someone do that?
by taint (Chaplain) on Nov 22, 2013 at 14:18 UTC
    I'm not so sure.

    It's all so; he said, she said, they say. They, say alot of things. But, to date, I have yet to ever meet they.

    While I'm sure that to some extent, what you say is true. I'd really love to see some numbers.

    All the best, tobyink.

    --Chris

    #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;
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      OK. I was able to find a little time to do some "number hunting" (find real data to support/debunk (m)any of the "facts" being thrown about in this thread). Here's the best info I was able to obtain:

      CPAN Authors
      YEAR AUTHORS
      1995 58
      1996 121
      1997 183
      1998 306
      1999 441
      2000 590
      2001 761
      2002 994
      2003 1207
      2004 1261
      2005 1303
      2006 1380
      2007 1447
      2008 1573
      2009 1631
      2010 1655
      2011 1671
      2012 1758
      2013 1736
      Shows a drop of 22, from 2012 to 2013. Does this reveal an alarming trend?

      Another interesting statistic is that an Author by the name of tobyink appears to be ranked "3", on the scale of "100 Most Contributing Authors". I could swear I've heard that name before, somewhere. :)

      Well, for what it's worth. That's the best/most revealing data I could come up with.

      --Chris

      #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;
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